Conscience is the“sanctuary” in which God speaks to the human soul. Conscience is sacred, yet it’s not infallible. We have the responsibility to form our conscience according to the truth. This is a serious responsibility which we should embrace with our entire mind and heart.
Conscience is not identifiable simply with whatever we think is right or wrong, but corresponds to our capacity for objective truth. We must consider both the laws of God and the teaching of the Church. In the Church, the living voice of Christ speaks to us. Thus, if we are to be serious about conscience, we must be serious about the Church.
In the session, we looked at the limitations of a freedom that is merely a capacity to choose between alternatives and proposed that true freedom cannot be reduced to this level alone. Instead, we should include the concept of true liberty, the fulfillment of freedom in adherence to the Good--i.e. God.
As to conscience, we explore true & false, good & bad conscience, culpability, and vincible & invincible ignorance in the formation of conscience. The whole talk is capped with a deeper understanding of what it means to judge without being judgmental, loving the sinner and hating the sin, and avoiding rationalizing our own errors, living with greater moral vigilance and reliance on the grace and mercy of God.
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